topic Re: kshell in Operating System - HP-UX

kshell

baiju_3 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:57:34 GMT

Hi ,

Keshell #Kerberos remote shell -kfall

This services (in inetd.conf) is recommended to be turned off in HP servers by security team .

But found that remsh stopped working after disabling .We need to keep the remsh working .
Is there any way to keep r commnads running even after shutting down kshell .

Is kshell services are required to be enabled for remsh to work?

Error returned after disabling kshell is

remsh serverA ll
remshd: getservbyname

Please share information.

Thanks,
BL.

Re: kshell

RAC_1 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:01:09 GMT

No way to do that. If you note the whole line, it is as follows.

kshell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd -K

I would rather go for ssh, If I were in your place.

Anil

Re: kshell

baiju_3 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:02:41 GMT

Sorry one correction ,

I am disabling the kshell service in /etc/services and not in inetd.conf.

Observed , as soon as I comment out entry in /etc/services the remsh from other node stops.I am not even doing an inetd -c to refresh.

Thanks,

Re: kshell

TwoProc — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:04:45 GMT

I think that's the point - remsh and others are security risks - so they want them off.

btw, check out ssh instead...

Re: kshell

RAC_1 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:05:20 GMT

/etc/services gives the service name to port mapping. so what you see is expected behaviour.

Anil

Re: kshell

Jeff Lightner_1 — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:17:14 GMT

If the reason you're doing this is security then go ahead and turn it off. Install ssh and use it instead of remsh.